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Con Air — Let Con Air Fly Again

One of us rented Con Air from Video Easy about fifteen times as a kid. Another went in so blind he wasn’t sure there’d be a plane.

Pacco picked this one, recording from Thailand. Nicolas Cage is Cameron Poe, an ex-Army Ranger finally out on parole, who catches the worst possible flight home: a prison transport full of the worst of the worst, about to be hijacked by John Malkovich’s Cyrus the Virus. It’s 1997, the hair is flowing, and the script changes direction every ten minutes.

Along the way: whether Poe is legally a deadly weapon, a no-guns-on-the-plane rule nobody respects, Steve Buscemi…

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